KQ: precipita B737 con 115 passeggeri a bordo

[Airbus]

quante compagnie africane hanno dei 747??

[Airspeed]

quante compagnie africane hanno dei 747??

L'aereo precipitato è un 737. Invece di 747 in Africa non ce ne sono quasi, fa eccezione penso solo SA. KQ non possiede alcun 747.

[Steman]

RAM (Royal Air Maroc) ha in flotta un B747-400
Non so se TAAG Angola Airlines ha ancora in servizio dei 747-300.
Altre compagnie africane che in passato hanno avuto in servizio B747 di varie versioni sono state Egyptair, Air Namibia, Cameroun Airlines, Khalifa Airways/Air Algerie. Sicuramente anche altre che ora non ricordo

Ciao

Stefano

[glk11]

Aggiornamento sulla caduta del B737 Kenya Airways


Kenya Airways crash pilot took off after storm warning

The pilot of a Kenya Airways plane that crashed in Cameroon this month decided to take off in stormy weather while other flights waited for conditions to improve, Cameroon's civil aviation chief said on Tuesday.
Cameroon has launched an investigation into the crash of the six-month-old Boeing 737-800, which crashed into swampy jungle not far from Douala Airport shortly after taking off around midnight on May 4-5. All 114 people on board were killed.
Relatives of the victims have criticized Cameroonian authorities over their handling of the accident. Search parties took nearly two days to locate the plane wreckage, which was found less than six kilometres from the end of the runway.
The head of Cameroon's Civil Aviation Authority, Ignatius Sama Juma, said the Douala control tower had advised the captain of Kenya Airways Flight 507 of the stormy weather conditions.
"Certainly, there was a storm problem," Sama Juma told Radio France Internationale, adding that only the official inquiry would determine whether the crash was caused by a technical fault or human error.
Sama Juma said the captains of two other aircrafts also due to leave Douala the same night both decided to wait for weather conditions to improve. They left safely.
"The control tower gave all the meteorological information to the commander of (the Kenya Airways) flight... but he decided to take off... it was his decision," Sama Juma said.
There were angry scenes near the site of the crash on Monday when Cameroonian soldiers prevented a group of relatives of crash victims from visiting the location because they said the accident site required further work.
The dead passengers came from 27 nations, mostly African, but with others from China, India, Europe and elsewhere.
Only one "black box", the flight data recorder, has been recovered. Rescuers were looking for the cockpit voice recorder.
Responding to criticism that Cameroonian authorities wasted nearly two days searching for the plane 150 km from the crash site, Sama Juma said the automatic distress beacon on board had stopped transmitting soon after take-off.
"When the crash took place... we think the beacon was immediately destroyed... it stopped transmitting, so that made precise location more difficult," the official said. He added the search was misled by data provided by a satellite tracking station in Toulouse. Sama Juma said Douala Airport did not have a ground surveillance radar, which would have made it much easier to locate the wreckage. "It's expensive to install surveillance radar," he said.